The trick is that the baby boomers made a lot of progressive changes when they were younger, and we shouldn't take that away from them. However those changes were largely made since they benefitted the younger baby boomers.
As they get older, they are still influencing society in a way that largely benefits them over others, and sine they are wealthier, that tends to be in the direction of wealth creation.
Of course, every generation does this, the baby boomers just have an oversized representation, they have a better ability to "distort" the market/political landscape.
Of course this is all about generalisations, there are plenty of anecdotes that will refute parts of these stories, but anecdotes are not trends.
You make it sound as being conservative is a bad thing. Alternatively, you could phrase it as, people become more conservative as they gain more responsibilities and experiences. Overall, I think it's a good thing, because it means that change happens slowly, which makes it easier to undo bad changes.
I don’t follow your logic there at all
>...ultimately have hurt those of us in the later generations more than they've helped us.
That seems to be saying the things they have done have made the world a worse place to live in.